Description

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Foreword; Peter Kitson and Tom Shakespeare.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- 1. Introduction; Michael Bradshaw and Essaka Joshua.- 2. Picturesque Aesthetics: Theorising Deformity in the Romantic Era; Essaka Joshua.- 3. Disability, Sympathy, and Encounter in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Emily B. Stanback.- 4. 'Psychological Curiosit ies]' from an 'Intellectual Giant': Coleridge, Disease, Disability, and Drugs; Corey Goergen.- 5. 'In mental as in visual darkness lost': Southey's Songs for a Mad King'; David Chandler.- 6. Mary Robinson's Paralysis and the Discourse of Disability; William D. Brewer.- 7. Blakean Wonder and the Unfallen Tharmas: Health, Wholeness, and Holarchy in The Four Zoas; Matt Lorenz.- 8. 'An uneasy mind in an uneasy body': Byron, Disability, Authorship, and Biography; Christine Kenyon Jones.- 9. Autistic Voice and Literary Architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Julia Miele Rodas.- 10. A Hundred Tongues: George Darley's Stammer; Jeremy Davies.- Index.-

About the Author

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Michael Bradshaw is Professor of English at Edge Hill University, UK. He has published extensively on Romanticism, including Keats, the Shelleys, The London Magazine, Romantic generations, and Romantic fragment poems; publications include Resurrection Songs: the Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2001), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2007).